Senior Traffic Integrity Engineer, Search/Anti-Scraper

Google LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 130,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Zürich is seeking a Senior Engineering Traffic Analyst to protect Google Search by analyzing evolving bot and scraper activity, identifying abuse patterns, and measuring the effectiveness of defenses. You will work with software engineers, data scientists, and SREs to deploy countermeasures and improve user experience.

The role emphasizes data-driven insights, ML/AI techniques, and cross-team collaboration across global locations, including Mountain View and New York.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
• 5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Experience with statistical analysis, data science and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and analyze patterns of abuse on Google Search, utilizing data-motivated insights to develop countermeasures and enhance platform security, and analyze datasets to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that may indicate abuse within Google Search.
• Develop and track metrics to measure scraper impact and the effectiveness of anti-scraping defenses, and collaborate with engineering teams to design, test, and launch new anti-scraper rules, models, and system enhancements.
• Review proof-of-concept attacks and research reports that identify blind spots and guide the engineering team's development priorities, evaluate the effectiveness of existing and proposed detection mechanisms, understanding the impact on both scrapers and real users.
• Contribute to the development of signals and features for machine learning models to detect abusive behavior, and develop and maintain threat intelligence on scraper actors, motivations, tactics, and the scraper ecosystem.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Statistical analysis

Communication

ML/AI concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Data visualization

Job description

Google LLC in Zürich is seeking a Senior Engineering Traffic Analyst to protect Google Search by analyzing evolving bot and scraper activity, identifying abuse patterns, and measuring the effectiveness of defenses. You will work with software engineers, data scientists, and SREs to deploy countermeasures and improve user experience.

The role emphasizes data-driven insights, ML/AI techniques, and cross-team collaboration across global locations, including Mountain View and New York.